to think or not to think
Mon May 14, 2007 Filed in: Recycled
thoughts
"If you make people
think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you
really make them think, they'll hate you." --Don
Marquis
"Information must be moved and consumed continuously. That is the price to be paid for speed-of-light transmission. What the information may be is of no consequence, as long as it is attention-getting, and does not inhibit the flow of new information coming fast behind it." --Neil Postman
Information is becoming less and less meaningful. In the information age, people don't want information, they want to feel informed. We consume information rather than internalize it and allow it to affect how we live our lives. That is why popular poetry and song lyrics crumble into paranoid and graceless sloganeering.
(While I'm writing...anyone see the Sox come back with six runs in the bottom of the ninth to win the game yesturday? That was off the hook...I think the O's need to spend some time practicing...how to catch a baseball.)
"Information must be moved and consumed continuously. That is the price to be paid for speed-of-light transmission. What the information may be is of no consequence, as long as it is attention-getting, and does not inhibit the flow of new information coming fast behind it." --Neil Postman
Information is becoming less and less meaningful. In the information age, people don't want information, they want to feel informed. We consume information rather than internalize it and allow it to affect how we live our lives. That is why popular poetry and song lyrics crumble into paranoid and graceless sloganeering.
(While I'm writing...anyone see the Sox come back with six runs in the bottom of the ninth to win the game yesturday? That was off the hook...I think the O's need to spend some time practicing...how to catch a baseball.)
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